Who else is excited for "Crazy Rich Asians" ?!?

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Anonymous wrote:Finally saw the movie yesterday and I loved it. Just totally lost myself in it. Also Awkwafina - I LOVE her. I want to see her in everything.

My husband was completely bored. He said he wishes there were more jokes.

But one thing - which I also thought while reading the books, and just remembered yesterday:

It's pretty egregious for Nick not to have prepared Rachel at all for what she was getting herself into, right?

Also: Is it remotely possible that Rachel wouldn't have Googled Nick at some point, early in their relationship?

Never googled DH. We’ve been married three years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Finally saw the movie yesterday and I loved it. Just totally lost myself in it. Also Awkwafina - I LOVE her. I want to see her in everything.

My husband was completely bored. He said he wishes there were more jokes.

But one thing - which I also thought while reading the books, and just remembered yesterday:

It's pretty egregious for Nick not to have prepared Rachel at all for what she was getting herself into, right?

Also: Is it remotely possible that Rachel wouldn't have Googled Nick at some point, early in their relationship?

Never googled DH. We’ve been married three years.

Really? When you and he first met, and you were getting to know each other - you never googled to see what was out there?

I did for my now-husband pretty early on. We are both writers with fairly large internet footprints - maybe it's only something that people with big online lives would do?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a female

The character Nick isn’t half-white either, but the actor is.

I thought it was really odd that they picked a half white actor to play the part of a full Chinese man

They had a hard time finding a fully-Asian leading man. They approached drama schools all over the West and were told such a guy wasn't in their radars. Chu learned of Golding through their accountant in KL. I think he suits the role because he does look manly, handsome and charismatic. If I had to pick another good-looking Asian male lead, I'd go with Daniel Henney but maybe he's too old for the part?

Yeah bc there are so few Chinese men on the planet.

No, it's because Asian women don't date Asian men. Half white actor makes it more believable from Rachel's perspective.

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Anonymous wrote:Finally saw the movie yesterday and I loved it. Just totally lost myself in it. Also Awkwafina - I LOVE her. I want to see her in everything.

My husband was completely bored. He said he wishes there were more jokes.

But one thing - which I also thought while reading the books, and just remembered yesterday:

It's pretty egregious for Nick not to have prepared Rachel at all for what she was getting herself into, right?

Also: Is it remotely possible that Rachel wouldn't have Googled Nick at some point, early in their relationship?

Never googled DH. We’ve been married three years.

Really? When you and he first met, and you were getting to know each other - you never googled to see what was out there?

I did for my now-husband pretty early on. We are both writers with fairly large internet footprints - maybe it's only something that people with big online lives would do?

Really. We just talked and talked and talked.

There’s also nothing interesting on me online. If he Googled me, he probably only found my employer and generic FB public profile stuff. I suspect the same is true for him. We’re both teachers so we have to have squeaky clean social media. And neither of us have extremely unique names.

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Anonymous wrote:Finally saw the movie yesterday and I loved it. Just totally lost myself in it. Also Awkwafina - I LOVE her. I want to see her in everything.

My husband was completely bored. He said he wishes there were more jokes.

But one thing - which I also thought while reading the books, and just remembered yesterday:

It's pretty egregious for Nick not to have prepared Rachel at all for what she was getting herself into, right?

Also: Is it remotely possible that Rachel wouldn't have Googled Nick at some point, early in their relationship?

Never googled DH. We’ve been married three years.

Really? When you and he first met, and you were getting to know each other - you never googled to see what was out there?

I did for my now-husband pretty early on. We are both writers with fairly large internet footprints - maybe it's only something that people with big online lives would do?

Really. We just talked and talked and talked.

There’s also nothing interesting on me online. If he Googled me, he probably only found my employer and generic FB public profile stuff. I suspect the same is true for him. We’re both teachers so we have to have squeaky clean social media. And neither of us have extremely unique names.

+1 married 5 years. Can't remember googling DH. We were coworkers so knew each other pretty well when we started to date. Since we were friends and I'd worked with him for a few years I was fairly confident he wasn't a serial killer so just went with it!

I can see if I was meeting up with someone from match or something I would definitely google. I think it probably depends on the people involved and how their relationship came to be.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a female

The character Nick isn’t half-white either, but the actor is.

I thought it was really odd that they picked a half white actor to play the part of a full Chinese man

They had a hard time finding a fully-Asian leading man. They approached drama schools all over the West and were told such a guy wasn't in their radars. Chu learned of Golding through their accountant in KL. I think he suits the role because he does look manly, handsome and charismatic. If I had to pick another good-looking Asian male lead, I'd go with Daniel Henney but maybe he's too old for the part?

Yeah bc there are so few Chinese men on the planet.

No, it's because Asian women don't date Asian men. Half white actor makes it more believable from Rachel's perspective.

Really? How astonishing. I've been a Chinese man in the US for 53 years and I didn't realize this. I obviously needed a white woman to teach me about dating practices within my own ancestral background.

Although I'm an American born Asian, I have known hundreds of Asian women who have dated Asian men over the years. Although I didn't marry an Asian woman, I did date two. I have known about every combination of American-born and Asian-born men and women who have dated and/or married other Asians both American-born and Asian-born. Although you are correct that more Asians date non-Asians, that's because when you are in the US, your pool of available single people if Asian descent to date is much smaller than your pool of non-Asian descent single people. It's a numbers game. When only 4% of the US population is of Asian descent, chances are about 25:1 that you'll date a non-Asian person.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a female Euasian (i.e. half Asian/Caucasian). I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I already wish that the Americanized female role of Rachel would have been played by an Eurasian, instead of Nick’s role who was played by an Eurasian.

But Rachel isn't Eurasian. She was full Chinese.

Plus, Rachel's being ABC, but born in China is important to why Nick's mother and Ahma object to her. It becomes crucial to the plot in China Rich Girlfriend , as well.

The character Nick isn’t half-white either, but the actor is.

I thought it was really odd that they picked a half white actor to play the part of a full Chinese man

They had a hard time finding a fully-Asian leading man. They approached drama schools all over the West and were told such a guy wasn't in their radars. Chu learned of Golding through their accountant in KL. I think he suits the role because he does look manly, handsome and charismatic. If I had to pick another good-looking Asian male lead, I'd go with Daniel Henney but maybe he's too old for the part?

He's also biracial -- half irish

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a female Euasian (i.e. half Asian/Caucasian). I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I already wish that the Americanized female role of Rachel would have been played by an Eurasian, instead of Nick’s role who was played by an Eurasian.

But Rachel isn't Eurasian. She was full Chinese.

Plus, Rachel's being ABC, but born in China is important to why Nick's mother and Ahma object to her. It becomes crucial to the plot in China Rich Girlfriend , as well.

The character Nick isn’t half-white either, but the actor is.

I thought it was really odd that they picked a half white actor to play the part of a full Chinese man

They had a hard time finding a fully-Asian leading man. They approached drama schools all over the West and were told such a guy wasn't in their radars. Chu learned of Golding through their accountant in KL. I think he suits the role because he does look manly, handsome and charismatic. If I had to pick another good-looking Asian male lead, I'd go with Daniel Henney but maybe he's too old for the part?

He's also biracial -- half irish

True that but he also fits the leading man sexy role. I dont know if he was considered for the role of Nick but he was great in the Korean rom-com "Seducing Mr. Perfect".

[Anonymous]

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They had a hard time finding a fully-Asian leading man. They approached drama schools all over the West and were told such a guy wasn't in their radars. Chu learned of Golding through their accountant in KL. I think he suits the role because he does look manly, handsome and charismatic. If I had to pick another good-looking Asian male lead, I'd go with Daniel Henney but maybe he's too old for the part?

Ridiculous. Then they didn't try hard enough.

There are many good Asian actors, some of whom are already known in the US.

John Cho, of Star Trek and Harold and Kumar fame is a fantastic choice. He recently made his leading man debut in the movie Searching.
Lee Byung-hun has been in several major movies including two GI Joe movies. Although his exposure to the US is through action movies, his origins in Korean TV are in non-action drama.
Harry Shum, Jr, of Glee fame is well known to US audiences.
Telly Leung, also of Glee fame, but also well known both on and off Broadway is fully Asian
James Kyson of Heroes fame.
Rick Yune has been in several big box office films including the Fast and Furious franchise and the James Bond franchise.

This is just a short list. There are many, many qualified fully Asian men who are qualified leading men, but Hollywood just isn't ready to cast a fully Asian man as a leading man unless it's an action adventure film where he can fit so many whitewashed Hollywood stereotypes.

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They had a hard time finding a fully-Asian leading man. They approached drama schools all over the West and were told such a guy wasn't in their radars. Chu learned of Golding through their accountant in KL. I think he suits the role because he does look manly, handsome and charismatic. If I had to pick another good-looking Asian male lead, I'd go with Daniel Henney but maybe he's too old for the part?

Ridiculous. Then they didn't try hard enough.

There are many good Asian actors, some of whom are already known in the US.

John Cho, of Star Trek and Harold and Kumar fame is a fantastic choice. He recently made his leading man debut in the movie Searching.
Lee Byung-hun has been in several major movies including two GI Joe movies. Although his exposure to the US is through action movies, his origins in Korean TV are in non-action drama.
Harry Shum, Jr, of Glee fame is well known to US audiences.
Telly Leung, also of Glee fame, but also well known both on and off Broadway is fully Asian
James Kyson of Heroes fame.
Rick Yune has been in several big box office films including the Fast and Furious franchise and the James Bond franchise.

This is just a short list. There are many, many qualified fully Asian men who are qualified leading men, but Hollywood just isn't ready to cast a fully Asian man as a leading man unless it's an action adventure film where he can fit so many whitewashed Hollywood stereotypes.

I don't know what you think is wrong with Henry Golding. He fits the role. It's about the role and many of the actors you mentioned wouldn't have carried the role the same way.

[Anonymous]

Eh. I think they should have reimagined it. Someone like Ryan gosling as Nick and like Jennifer Lawrence as the love interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eh. I think they should have reimagined it. Someone like Ryan gosling as Nick and like Jennifer Lawrence as the love interest.

Then everyone would have boycott the movie.

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They had a hard time finding a fully-Asian leading man. They approached drama schools all over the West and were told such a guy wasn't in their radars. Chu learned of Golding through their accountant in KL. I think he suits the role because he does look manly, handsome and charismatic. If I had to pick another good-looking Asian male lead, I'd go with Daniel Henney but maybe he's too old for the part?

Ridiculous. Then they didn't try hard enough.

There are many good Asian actors, some of whom are already known in the US.

John Cho, of Star Trek and Harold and Kumar fame is a fantastic choice. He recently made his leading man debut in the movie Searching.
Lee Byung-hun has been in several major movies including two GI Joe movies. Although his exposure to the US is through action movies, his origins in Korean TV are in non-action drama.
Harry Shum, Jr, of Glee fame is well known to US audiences.
Telly Leung, also of Glee fame, but also well known both on and off Broadway is fully Asian
James Kyson of Heroes fame.
Rick Yune has been in several big box office films including the Fast and Furious franchise and the James Bond franchise.

This is just a short list. There are many, many qualified fully Asian men who are qualified leading men, but Hollywood just isn't ready to cast a fully Asian man as a leading man unless it's an action adventure film where he can fit so many whitewashed Hollywood stereotypes.

Not one of those men you listed are romantic leading man types.

Some of them could do a leading role, but not the multibillionaire, make women melt, nice guy next door character that Harry Goulding portrayed.

Some of them (like the Glee actors) are not big screen actors. They are TV actors and not strong enough to carry a big screen, high vis film like this.

A couple you listed might be able to pull off romantic leading men, but only if they looked 10 years younger.

Harry Goulding has a smouldering yet likeable vulnerability that translated very well into the big screen and the character of Nick.

The casting folks hit it out of the ballpark with him.

[Anonymous]

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They had a hard time finding a fully-Asian leading man. They approached drama schools all over the West and were told such a guy wasn't in their radars. Chu learned of Golding through their accountant in KL. I think he suits the role because he does look manly, handsome and charismatic. If I had to pick another good-looking Asian male lead, I'd go with Daniel Henney but maybe he's too old for the part?

Ridiculous. Then they didn't try hard enough.

There are many good Asian actors, some of whom are already known in the US.

John Cho, of Star Trek and Harold and Kumar fame is a fantastic choice. He recently made his leading man debut in the movie Searching.
Lee Byung-hun has been in several major movies including two GI Joe movies. Although his exposure to the US is through action movies, his origins in Korean TV are in non-action drama.
Harry Shum, Jr, of Glee fame is well known to US audiences.
Telly Leung, also of Glee fame, but also well known both on and off Broadway is fully Asian
James Kyson of Heroes fame.
Rick Yune has been in several big box office films including the Fast and Furious franchise and the James Bond franchise.

This is just a short list. There are many, many qualified fully Asian men who are qualified leading men, but Hollywood just isn't ready to cast a fully Asian man as a leading man unless it's an action adventure film where he can fit so many whitewashed Hollywood stereotypes.

John Cho could do a rom com like Knocked Up.

He is not right for this role. No one is going to curl their toes and swoon with John Cho as Nick.

Henry Goulding was believable in that role. None of those actors you listed are that type of actor..

[Anonymous]

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They had a hard time finding a fully-Asian leading man. They approached drama schools all over the West and were told such a guy wasn't in their radars. Chu learned of Golding through their accountant in KL. I think he suits the role because he does look manly, handsome and charismatic. If I had to pick another good-looking Asian male lead, I'd go with Daniel Henney but maybe he's too old for the part?

Ridiculous. Then they didn't try hard enough.

There are many good Asian actors, some of whom are already known in the US.

John Cho, of Star Trek and Harold and Kumar fame is a fantastic choice. He recently made his leading man debut in the movie Searching.
Lee Byung-hun has been in several major movies including two GI Joe movies. Although his exposure to the US is through action movies, his origins in Korean TV are in non-action drama.
Harry Shum, Jr, of Glee fame is well known to US audiences.
Telly Leung, also of Glee fame, but also well known both on and off Broadway is fully Asian
James Kyson of Heroes fame.
Rick Yune has been in several big box office films including the Fast and Furious franchise and the James Bond franchise.

This is just a short list. There are many, many qualified fully Asian men who are qualified leading men, but Hollywood just isn't ready to cast a fully Asian man as a leading man unless it's an action adventure film where he can fit so many whitewashed Hollywood stereotypes.

I don't know what you think is wrong with Henry Golding. He fits the role. It's about the role and many of the actors you mentioned wouldn't have carried the role the same way.

I have nothing against Henry Golding. And if they want to stand behind their decision, they should do so. However, the excuse that they could not find a fully-Asian leading man is just a bad response and should never have been stated. That's saying that out of thousands of Asian actors that none of is a viable leading man. I agree that Golding did a good job. But they need to state that they picked Golding because of his merits, not a lame excuse that they couldn't find a fully-Asian leading actor.